"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear   

"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on fear
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."

Aurelius, Marcus on goodness
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on injury
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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